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The French and Indian war was part of a bigger war, the seven years war. This war had the north American colonists of great Brittan against the French north American colonists and any being supported by native American tribes. -
This was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
British legislation wanted to end the smuggling trade of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch west indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian war.
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Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper -
was a bunch of measures passed by British Parliament that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot on King Street in Boston. The fight started between Americans harassing British soldiers and the British soldiers returning fire.
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the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against the tax on tea, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The First Continental Congress, which was made up of delegates from the colonies, a group of measures created by the British government on the colonies in retaliation to their resistance to new taxes.
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This was laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were supposed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance at the Boston Tea Party revolt.
